Sentence examples for flop under from inspiring English sources

And Mr. Kravitz's mother fell in love with Hoover's Electric Broom, a short-lived sensation after an initial flop under the name Vacuum Stick.

Our method is based on connecting a time-to-digital converter to the output of the flip flop under test, rather than using a phase shifted clock, as conventionally done.

Spielberg was initially absent from the project because Zemeckis felt if he produced another flop under him, he would never be able to make another film.

REBOUNDS Josh Childress missed his second straight game because of an injured left ankle.... Minnesota's J. J. Barea was one of the first players to be issued a warning for flopping under the N.B.A.'s new policy.

Several teams flopped under the burden of youth, while others, most notably Boston College and Providence, rose further than anyone had imagined, mostly because they had taken their lumps before.

She's one of my idols!" Octavia Spencer, wearing flip-flops under her lilac gown – she kicked off her Louboutin heels in the press room – rushed by from the InStyle party, where everyone from Tilda Swinton to Paris Hilton cut a rug.

Micah Richards took out Diego Capel but was saved when Fernández's first free-kick went straight to Hart and the midfielder followed this by trying to con a penalty when flopping under David Pizarro's minimal contact and the referee booked him.

Away form has long been an issue for them, unsurprisingly given the distances they have to travel, and if they had flopped under the weight of a long injury list and a long journey on Christmas Eve we would surely not have condemned them.

The other group, the KTeV collaboration at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, found a subtler example of time asymmetry by comparing the rates for kaons decaying to different configurations of particles that flip-flop under time reversal.

Yes, there was Vista, Zune, Kin and a host of other flops under his tenure.

Nupedia allegedly flopped under the weight of its PhD requirements, software inadequacies, the superiority of the wiki model in general and Wikipedia in particular.